Congratulations to Armelandliz, our February Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
She wore red when she went out at night
less for seduction than for safety
as she’d heard somewhere sometimes
that red cars were less likely
to get into
fender-benders.
It seems for that for her
it...

Congratulations also to our January Writing Prompt Contest Winners!
C.A. Head
Sometimes a bit of music brings her to mind, Coltrane or Nyro or Chopin. But always she comes in the dawn reverie. It’s why I never press the doze button; never punch my pillow for the softest cradle. I fight...

Congratulations to C. A. Head, our November Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
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“Fall,” I repeated incredulously. “Your name is Fall?”
You could tell she had this conversation regularly. She closed her eyes, inhaled deeply and dived into the account of her hippie parents who honored...

Congratulations to our October Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
Chrissy718
“Something wicked this way comes.” As soon as the words tumbled from his mouth, the lights flickered. Gina, becoming annoyed at yet another of Robert’s dramatic schemes to frighten her, warned him to stop....

Congratulations to Olive Love, the winner of our quarterly drawing. Olive has won a print copy of our Fall Issue: Transformation.
Congratulations to our September Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
Chrissy 71871
We scrubbed. We scoured. On hands and knees, we cleaned until our skin was...

Congratulations to our August Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
Musouka
John pulled me by the hand to the point of pain in his excitement. He yanked me across the foyer sneakers tripping off the carpet in resistance. The abrupt halt in the grass led to his arm thrust in pride towards the...

Congratulations to Yulia Fedorov, our June Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
Yulia is also the winner of our quarterly drawing, and has won a print copy of our Summer Issue: Escape.
Summer is my newborn child, whom I adore! Her eyes a rich shade of blue, like a sky devoid of clouds; her downy...

Congratulations to Cathaber1, our May Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
She knew that on Mayday you were supposed to get up at dawn, run up a hill and bathe in the morning dew. If you did that the next person you saw would be your true love. Knowing her luck, the next person she saw would be a...

Congratulations to Alicia Dekker, our April Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
The joke’s on you, Miss. Taylor, thinking you could outwit seven year-olds. You, with your fresh degree and trim, pressed pantsuits.
If you had asked us, in the teacher’s lounge, we would have told you. But, no, you...

Congratulations to Anthony James Larrea, our March Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
Anthony is also the winner of our first quarterly drawing, and has won a print copy of our debut Issue: Fools.
The march came in like a lion, ten thousand boots striking left-right-left, pounding the...

Congratulations to Alicia Dekker, our February Writing Prompt Contest Winner!
Licks of spark and flame draw us in, like oxygen, and blow us, heated into the night. We consume each other, you and I, like kindling, like old wood. Snow melts at our periphery, a watery consequence, blurring...

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